Bidens Pay Their Respects to Ginsburg at U.S. Capitol
Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden were in Washington on Friday to pay their respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They were invited to attend the special ceremony at the Capitol to commemorate Ginsburg lying in state.
Biden said he met Ginsburg for the first time when he was chairman of the committee that oversaw her confirmation hearing.
Services were brief, with the rabbi’s reflections and prayer, before guests lined up to pass by the casket and pay their respects.
Members of the House and Senate who were not invited to the ceremony because of space limitations imposed by the coronavirus pandemic will be able to pay their respects before a motorcade carrying Ginsburg’s casket departs the Capitol in the early afternoon.
The honor of lying in state has been accorded fewer than three dozen times, mostly to presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress.
Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon, was the most recent person to lie in state following his death in July. Henry Clay, the Kentucky lawmaker who served as Speaker of the House and also was a senator, was the first in 1852.
Rosa Parks – a private citizen, not a government official – is the only woman who has lain in honor, a separate commemoration, at the Capitol.
Ginsburg had lain in repose for two days at the Supreme Court, where thousands of people paid their respects outside, including President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Thursday. Spectators booed and chanted “vote him out” as the president, who wore a mask, stood silently near Ginsburg’s casket at the top of the court’s front steps.
Trump plans to announce his nomination Saturday of a woman to take Ginsburg’s place on the high court, where she served for 27 years and was the leader of the liberal justices.
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, will be buried next week in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband, Martin, who died in 2010.
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